"I have yet to receive a letter from a child somehow debilitated by the domestic violence, drug abuse, racism, poverty, sexuality, and murder contained in my book. To the contrary, kids as young as ten have sent me autobiographical letters written in crayon, complete with drawings inspired by my book, that are just as dark, terrifying, and redemptive as anything I’ve ever read."[59]
The book has been credited with addressing the experiences and issues faced by Native American students in the public school system.[60]
Some have even discussed the merits of the book while also mentioning the risks of exposing children to the harsher scenes. In an essay on censorship, young adult fiction author Raquel Rivera wrote:
"It is an excellent book and happens to have much useful material for a boy entering his teens... But there is a scene in Part-Time Indian in which a racist joke is told, and the protagonist is compelled to fight. For me, the joke was nothing more than a tool to propel the plot. In the story it is duly vanquished and forgotten. But the joke stayed with my son, and he continued to be bothered by it."[61]
Media
Audiobook
The author Sherman Alexie himself narrates the audiobook of The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian, which has won many awards for its creation of an idiosyncratic, first-person voice.[62] "Alexie is the perfect choice to read his own story," notes critic Kristi Jemtegaard.[62] Alexie is able to convey the messages that the missing cartoons, caricatures, and sketches reveal in the printed text.[62] Alexie, who has experience as an orator, won the Taos Poetry Circus World Heavyweight Championship award three years in a row for his oratorical virtuosity.[10]
Film adaptation
According to The Hollywood Reporter, in December 2016, Fox 2000 Pictures acquired the rights to produce The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The producing team consists of Hugh Jackman, Wyck Godfrey, Isaac Klausner, and Lauren Shuler Donner. The film is currently under development, and a set release date has not been announced as of yet.
↑ Peterson, Nancy J. (2009). Conversations with Sherman Alexie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. p. 58. ISBN1604732806.
1 2 3 4 Alexie, Sherman. "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me." The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading.Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1997. Print, 130.
↑ Crandall, Bryan Ripley (2009). "Adding a Disability Perspective When Reading Adolescent Literature: Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian". ALAN Review. 179: 71–78.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Wayland, Nerida. "Representations of Happiness in Comedic Young Adult Fiction: Happy are the Wretched." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 7 (2015): 86+. Literature Resource Center; Gale. Web
↑ Alexie, Sherman (2007). The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Little, Brown and Company. p.15. ISBN978-0-316-01368-0.
1 2 3 4 Johnson, Jan. "Healing the Soul Wound in Flight and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian." Healing the Soul Wound, by Eduardo Duran, Teachers College Press, 2006, 227.
↑ Johnson, Jan (2010). "Healing the Soul Wound in Flight and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian". Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays: 224–237.
↑ Berglund, Jeff and Jan Roush. Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2010. /z-wcorg/. Web, 36.
↑ Alexie, Sherman, and James Mellis. "Interview with Sherman Alexie." Children's Literature Review, edited by Jelena Krstovic, vol. 179, Gale, 2013. Literature Resource Center, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1420112446/LitRC?u=wash43584&sid=LitRC&xid=33403b20. Accessed 5 Dec. 2017. Originally published in Conversations with Sherman Alexie, edited by Nancy J. Peterson, University Press of Mississippi, 2009, pp. 180-186.
↑ "National Book Awards – 2007". National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrieved 2012-04-15. (With acceptance speech by Alexie, interview with Alexie, and other material, partly replicated for all five Young People's Literature authors and books.)
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